Robert Schuwer

Robert Schuwer is Professor of Open Educational Resources (OER) at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, School of ICT in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In September 2016 he was appointed Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on OER at Fontys. Since 2006 the majority of his work is about OER and Open Education. Among other activities, he was project leader in the Wikiwijs program, aiming at enhancing awareness on OER and creating a national infrastructure for OER, initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Education. Currently, he is the captain of the track “Towards digital (open) resources” in the Dutch Acceleration Plan for Innovating Higher Education using Information Technology. His current research is on enhancing adoption of OER and other forms of open online education by the early and late majority of teachers.


Sessions

12-02
15:45
60min
Benefits and challenges in the context of Open Educational Resources
Sushumna Rao Tadinada, Robert Schuwer, Susanne Grimm, Jöran Muuß-Merholz

The distribution of Open Educational Resources (OER) is strongly connected to the rise of the world wide web.

Linking Digital Education Services Track
Stage 1, Leibniz-Saal, BBAW